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on our state math exam.
We estimate that an additional 10 days of instruction results in an increase in student
performance on state math assessments of just under 0.2 standard deviations.
Last year, those five schools average 21 percentage points below their home
district on state math tests and 10 points below in reading.
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We find that all four measures of competition (distance, density, diversity, and concentration) are positively related to student
performance on state math and reading tests.
Asian students have generally performed better than white students
on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.
At PS134, the numbers were only slightly better, with 36 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or
above on the state math tests, and only 14 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state ELA tests.
After our first year of working with Ms. Arenas, the percentage of students scoring at or above
proficiency on the state math test tripled from 3.2 % to over 11 %; after our second year with Ms. Arenas, the percentage almost tripled again to 30 %.
Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same
level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.
For years, this school has lagged behind other schools in New York
City on state math and English language arts tests (scoring 30 % in math and 22 % in ELA respectively, in 2014).
For instance, African American and Latino students have improved by 30 to 40
percent on the State math assessments since they were first given.
For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students»
achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.
Elsbeth's efforts help explain how TYWLS was able to beat a set of comparison
schools on the state math test by 19 % in terms of the change in the percentage of students scoring proficient from the 2013 - 14 school year (the baseline year) to the 2014 - 15 school year (the first year PowerMyLearning partnered with TYWLS).
TNTP, whose teachers are known locally as Indianapolis Teaching Fellows, boasts standout teachers such as Mike Anderson, an algebra teacher who was named IPS Teacher of the Year in 2010, and Keeanna Reid, who helped her students achieve a 92 percent pass
rate on the state math exam, up from 60 percent the year before among the same group of students.
By 2024 - 25, the state wants 76 percent of all students and all student subgroups to show proficiency on the state E / LA exam, and 71 percent of all students and all student subgroups to do the
same on the state math exam.
Although Shelby County has one of the lowest percentages of students who are economically disadvantaged in the state, only about half of its students tested proficient or
advanced on state math tests in 2011, according to state numbers.
New York City girls in grades 3 to 8 outscored
boys on state math tests for the second straight year, with 35.2 percent passing this year, compared to 33.4 percent of the boys passing.
Data on state math and reading test scores for all Florida students attending public schools in grades 3 to 10 from the 2000 - 01 through 2008 - 09 years were analyzed.
CLEVELAND — Donald Trump made a renewed pitch here Thursday for the school choice movement — at a charter school that has received failing grades from the Ohio Department of Education for its students» performance and
progress on state math and reading tests.
Instead,
results on the state math and English language arts tests were used to judge — and often punish — schools and districts.
So far, the school has performed above
average on state math and science tests and graduated nearly all of its students, half of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunches available to low - income students.
For years, Florida middle and high school students who did
poorly on state math and reading tests had to take remedial classes in those subjects the next academic year.
In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared
worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.
• In Colorado, third - graders at Aragon Elementary School in the Fountain - Fort Carson School District scored in the 31st
percentile on the state math exam in 2005.
In addition, nearly half (49 %) of Kerrick's students entering the third grade during the 2015 — 16 year tested proficient or
distinguished on the state math exam.
Ms. Hoxby found that students who attended a charter school from kindergarten to eighth grade would nearly match the performance of their peers in affluent suburban
communities on state math exams by the time they entered high school, a phenomenon she characterizes as closing the «Harlem - Scarsdale» achievement gap.
So, when researchers looked at test scores four years after a school closure, displaced students had generally comparable
scores on state math exams to scores of their non-displaced peers.
The seventh graders at the Brooke Charter schools in East Boston and Roslindale fare as
well on a state math test as students at the prestigious Boston Latin school, the country's oldest public school and a school with an admissions exam.
This year, 88 percent of SUNY - authorized charter schools outperformed their
districts on the state math tests, and 83 percent outperformed their districts on the state reading tests.
Before Mr. G. arrived, 33 percent of white 5th graders reached the advanced
level on the state math test; in 2009, twice as many did.
In his mind, last year's midyear departures of all four sixth - through eighth - grade math and science teachers was no excuse for the middle grades» poor
performance on the state math test, but at least it offered an explanation for what were in some cases dramatic declines.
In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more
proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.
At KIPP, a middle school founded by two former Teach for America members, one recent class entered with passing rates of 35 and 33
percent on state math and reading tests.
As a result, respondents» grades for their local schools could be compared to the actual performance of those
schools on state math and reading tests.
In the 2014 - 15 school year, 3rd and 4th graders» proficiency
rates on the state math test broke into double digits — a step up from 0 percent before the change in management.
Despite years of state budget cuts and rising class sizes that now average 30 or more, 83 percent of Laurel Street K - fifth grade students scored at the proficient or higher level on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent scored that
high on the state math test.
At PS 137, only 11 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scored «proficient» or
above on the state math tests, whereas the citywide average was 38 %.
In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing
score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.
Children who took part in City Connects for at least a year did better
on state math exams than children in the comparison group who didn't participate in the intervention.
However, the data from the schools are a strong interim measure of success: 97 and 100 percent of the 3rd graders at Canada's two elementary schools performed at grade level
on the state math test in 2008.